When you make the decision to go cruelty-free and/or adopt a vegan lifestyle, it can be difficult to know where to look when it comes to buying cruelty-free and vegan cosmetics. From well-known stores to dedicated ‘without harm’ beauty boutiques, I’ve rounded up 7 places for you to find your favourite cruelty-free and vegan makeup brands together with a list…

I open the bottle, spray my wrist gently and the memories come flooding back… Do you remember making your own perfume from garden flowers when you were younger? My Grandma would let me pick petals from her rose bushes and mix them with water, stirring them with a wooden spoon, before draining the petals and dosing myself in the sweet…

Here’s a little secret: I get super nervous when I try those bold, darker lip colours. You know, the ones that are really popular at the moment. They are daring and beautiful and I bloody love them but truthfully? I just don’t have the confidence for them right now. I’ve got a row in my make-up collection of gorgeous shades from…

Since we started our vegan journey at the beginning of the year, I’ve learnt to embrace the notion of ordering our groceries and other vegan products online and having them delivered whereas I would have usually trawled around the shops instead. Don’t get me wrong, we still use the usual main supermarkets but none of them are particularly excelling when…

If you read my last post then you’ll already know that we’re doing Veganuary this year (a charity awareness campaign where participants adopt a vegan lifestyle for the month of January) and we’re both planning to stick with veganism permanently. I thought it might be nice to keep track of my food intake so you can see what sort of…

“Eat jam not ham” — isn’t that just the cutest quote ever? One of my guilty pleasures food-wise is the thickest slice of white bread, smothered in salted butter and slathered in strawberry jam. Yes, this is definitely a movement I can get behind (although I’ll have to sprinkle some salt granules on my dairy-free spread!) Let’s get real though,…